Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Ok, on to more serious stuff.It's Wednesday already! That's enough!I don't know why but this one silly little hour has kicked my butt. I usually wake up about a half an hour before the radio turns on and then twitch and wiggle for a while. Does this annoy the Mister? I am sure it doesn't.The Mister gets up at 6:30 and leaves the house with Em at 6:50. (There is not much prep time required. I need more tme, but i am MUCH MORE attractive when i do leave.)I usually get up right after they leave and make tea and feed the cats (not in that order.) But this week i have lain there in a stupor so long each morning that i risk being late to whatever awaits me that day. Which is not like me because i hate being late. It also causes the cats to stomp on my head and loudly voice their opinions. Which causes me to resort to the flying pillow trick. Which buys me another 30 seconds.We just need more pillows on the bed.

Yeah, we're experiencing a bit of a cat problem lately. The weather has risen above "Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ, but it's cold out here!" temperature, and one of the four cats has decided that he needs to be out in it. RIGHT NOW. At four in the morning. Of course, it has to be the cat with the loudest voice, too. My husband got up, grumbling swear words under his breath, to let the beast out, all the while complaining that the critter had meowed its way into his dreams.

I am having a difficult time with the time change too...could it be because it is still DARK outside when I wake up? ...Just a thought...couldn't the Mister take the cats out of your bedroom and close the door when he leaves? ... Problem solved!

nancy, excellent idea, peanut butter it is. Might mess up the carpet, but it will be worth it.

platypus, On the weekends i just make the Mister get up and boot them out the door.

mrs.chili, four cats? I thought i was nuts with three. I'm going to be the crazy old lady with 27 cats.

lynn, the dark is an unpleasant surprise. It had JUST started to get light in the mornings and now this. I blame Congress. I was thinking the Mister could lock them in the garage..... But then they leave little mud roses all over my car.

chani, i could if i didn't have my early morning fab club. Grrrr.

patches, Excellent excellent idea. I'm off to the toy store.

jen, or an electric fence.

dick, i know they are. They are usually extremely cuddly, except when food deprived.

We decided to go catless after our last two died. I wouldn't say I miss being startled awake by a cat sitting on my face. But, I do imagine I hear one jump down from something when an icecube drops in the icemaker or such. And I don't like to do yardwork anymore because I miss our golden retriever sitting on my feet.

We lock our cat in the basement at night to avoid the tap-dancing-on-the-head...now we just endure the banging-on-the-basement-door-with-my-paws-dangit noise....

A friend of mine used to keep a strong cup of cold coffee near his bed, so when he woke up every morning, he could fill himself full of bad-tasting caffeine, and that would get him out of bed. I thought that was a dangerous idea....

egan, most of ours end up on the floor by morning anyway, and not just because i throw them at the cats.

qt, i wonder why we need 2 hours of sleep to recover from a one hour change. Maybe it's all in our heads? Nah!

luckyzmom, i think about the freedom that being catless would provide. But i sure get alot of pleasure out of them.

maggie, it IS lovely. I have my tea beside me now.

toni, did you read the part about how they get up at 6:30 and leave 20 minutes later? They are both always in a huge rush. They are actually supposed to leave at 6:45. Normally it's not a problem as i am awake. Just not this week.

spenser, but i don't WANNA get up! I would probably throw that puppy against the wall after the first day.

urban-urchin, i do love that extra hour in the fall though. I milk that for a week.

d-man, maybe if you explained it to them? Maybe not!

mona, my cats are spoiled. I would spill that coffee all over everything.

My whole body system is rebelling this time over the time change. Why is that? I get up at 5, so it feels like 4. My cats are still snoozing away when the day before the change they were sitting bedside giving me the super stare.

I am right there with you, Meno. Perhaps you need to go with your feeling and sleep. You might be fighting something? Or... are you drinking more caffeine than usual? It causes a crash in the morning. I should know.

lee, but they're so CUTE! Plus either i leave them outside all night, where they might get eaten by a raccoon, or they demand service first thing in the morning. They're not spoiled, they're NOT!

jennifer, that is bad. Here you were all ready for the weekend.

mamap, i don't do caffeine really at all. So that can't be it. I think i'm just a whiner. Wah wah wah.

egan, you know, you made a comment ablut my blog having a (and i quote) "sex vibe" on your blog the other day. I was all "ME? I don't think so." Now i see it's YOU who takes my PERFECTLY INNOCENT words and twists them all around to sound dirty. Cool!

My cat has been stomping me for a long time. She first walks through my hair, then stomps me right at the hairline so it cannot be ignored. Sometimes she walks over my face. I try not to think of where those little white feet have been. If this doesn't work, she screeches in my ear, then rattles the handles on an antique trunk that serves as a bedside table. She bats around some electric cords, and for the piece de resistance, she loudly chomps on my palm trees. One of the above is sure to get results.

She seems to have adjusted her internal clock perfectly. She starts her performance an hour later by the clock now, but still way too early for me.

I'm now weirded out because I know I commented here and it's not here!!Anyway...because we close our door to avoid 2 cats sleeping at the foot of our bed cramping my long-legged style, we have to hear their morning scratching on the door and meowing very audible "Good Mornings" to us!Kind of subs in for an alarm clock!